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Starting a low-fat diet in mid-life does not, by itself, decrease a woman's risk of heart disease or stroke or dramatically reduce her risk of breast or colorectal cancer, according to three studies published today of almost 50,000 healthy, post-menopausal women. But don?t break out the ice cream just yet. Once you get into the nitty-gritty of the study, the investigators stress, the findings still support the general idea that you need to pay attention to how much fat-and particularly what kinds...
...widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., died in her sleep early Tuesday morning at the age of 78. She had worked tirelessly after her husband's death in 1968 to carry on his legacy and only recently began to slow down her efforts. Having suffered a stroke in August 2005, King made a surprising appearance at a children's program in mid-January during events surrounding the annual commemoration of King's birthday. Passive and regal in a wheelchair, King did not speak but welcomed a line of children to her side...
...King's official cause of death is listed as cardio-respiratory failure, cerebral vascular illness and ovarian cancer, with her heart and lung failures owing in part to the stroke. Her cancerous condition had not been previously made public, and she was diagnosed last fall, according to family friends. That condition, deemed inoperable by doctors consulted in the United States, led King's family to check her into an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico on January 26 under an assumed name. No funeral or memorial arrangements had been announced, as King's family escorted her body back to Atlanta early...
...dead heat, with Fatah taking 32 percent of the vote and Hamas taking 30 percent.Blanc said that the political situation in the two weeks has calmed considerably, despite Hamas’s participation and the political fallout from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s debilitating stroke on Jan. 4.“At the beginning of the month, things seemed to be deteriorating and we were quite worried,” Blanc said. “But after Eid in the middle of January, President Abbas made a speech saying that the elections will...
Nothing much happened here in Israel last week, which was something of a surprise to most Israelis, who were expecting big, dramatic, perhaps cataclysmic developments after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was incapacitated by a massive stroke. Sharon, ever stubborn, lived on, breathing a little, responding reflexively to pokes and proddings from his physicians--and so there was no state funeral, no national emotional catharsis, no clear transfer of power. But more important, there was no political confusion or panic. Leadership was quietly assumed by Sharon's deputy, Ehud Olmert. "Here we are in the midst of a revolution in Israeli...